Word: lifeman
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Dates: during 1949-1949
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...People Speak. The Travel Expert requires a more complex ploy. Just as the expert is getting into full stride on his visit to Vladivostok, the Lifeman clears his throat...
...There is no finer spectacle," wrote Potter, "than the sight of the good Lifeman, so ignorant that he can scarcely spell the simplest word, making an expert look a fool in his own subject, or at any rate interrupting him in that stupefying flow, breaking that deadly one upness of the man who, say, has really been to Russia, has genuinely taken a course in psychiatry, or has written a book on something...
...Lifeman (as if explaining to the rest of the audience): It was Husch who prevented the Archbishop from taking office in Sofia...
Potter notes: "No matter how wild Lifeman's quiet insertion may be, it is enough to create a pause, even a tiny sensation . . . To break the winning vein, break the flow...